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What's this "selling guns" you speak of?

I saw one of those in LL Bean in Maine a few yrs ago. It was well, well used, still tight but showing lots of hard miles. Those are a far nicer gun than the std BSS.

I would have bought it but for being a CDN in a foreign land.

Kimber HS .22

My first 870. I was young and dumb.

Sometimes though, it just becomes “stuff”. I have a Marlin 336, unfired, with original box, etc, that I bought around 2003 or so. I like it, I just never got around to shooting it. I have plenty of other rifles that I hunt with.

They have gone up appreciably in value, and that means it is relegated to being a safe queen - I’m never going to shoot an unfired Marlin 336 at this point.

So it is just “stuff”, taking up space. So the question becomes do you keep carrying the baggage and hope it goes up even more in value? The older I get, the less I like “stuff” that isn’t used.

If you have ever seen the movie Fight Club, there is an awesome line, “The things you own end up owning you.”

Nula in .260 Rem. I didn't really have a use for it anymore, and it needed to be hunted properly. Cool rifle and the design was defiantly ahead of its time.

Like the OP, I want to experience as many different guns as possible. I have neither space nor $ to keep them all so in order to buy, I must sell. Most I don't miss but I really wish I had kept the two model 700 Classics in 6.5x55 and .35 Whelan. They both shot very well, fit me perfectly and comprised a perfect North American two rifle battery.

Something like your Mossberg I would probably just give that to a kid or a friend.

I am in the midst of selling a Win Model 70 "Shot show Special" with a 4X piece of maple on it......haven't even received the check yet and am already crying about it......Just have too many rifles and need to thin the herd a bit.....

A Charter Arms .44 special. The 3 inch Bulldog.

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I still have all the guns given to me as a youngster. I will never sell the guns I got for Christmas or birthdays or whatever before I was a teenager. I sell and trade only the guns I have acquired as an adult on my own.

Ruger 96/44. Loved that little lever gun. Sold it during a moon 🌙 fit!

Nary a regret.

They're just tools to me.

Win 94 classic. 26 inch octagon, good figured stock.

1920 grey winchester 94
1956 win94

Colt Anaconda
Single Six in .32 H&R Magnum

None. That’s the only to build a collection 😁

I had a C grade 700 in 25-06 with a heavy barrel. I sold it like a Dumass. I sold an Iver Henriksen rifle like a Dumass too, but DesertMuleDeer was kind enough to sell it back to me.


I hesitated buying a Keith Stegall 7 mag, gone when I made my mind up to buy it. That bothers me a lot.

Belgium Browning Sweet 16.

Stevens 410 SxS I bought off the neighbor at Christmas. Guy at work wanted one to cut down for a truck gun. What a waste…..

Golden Eagle 12 ga O/U

20 ga H&R Topper Jr., Christmas present from dad when I was 6. Some worthless [bleep] stole it from my truck.

S&W 686 sold for $250 in 1994 because it was too big to conceal.

I didn't sell it, the ex-wife did before I was able to return from Germany after divorce.

Ruger 77 tang safety, 7x57 with Leupold 4x. Absolutely gorgeous stock on that rifle, and shot very well. Think about that one a lot. The old man bought and gave that rifle to me in 1980 or so.